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Re: Datsville
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:32:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, "John VanZwieten"
> <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> writes:
> > What do I have to do to make this happen?  I'm willing to give it a try.
> > What options are there for uploading files to www.ldraw.org?  Is there
> > an html editor there, or do I have to make changes on my machine then
> > upload?
> 
> 
> Hey John,
> 
> If you wanted a really quick & simple way to make updates, we could make you
> a special /cad/datsville/ area on www.lugnet.com and you could use the new
> page editing system.  For example, I put together this demo page in about 10
> minutes -- all from online forms via the web browser:
> 
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville
> 
> (This is just a demo, not intended to rip off John's copyrighted text and/or
> images...I'll take the page down triple-pronto if John has any issues with
> it!)

Oh I have "issues" with it all right!  I want it!  It looks so much nicer than
my well-intentioned attempts at html.

> 
> The source for this is here:
> 
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville.ftx
> 
> and the source for the subpages, which are included on-the-fly in the main
> page, are here:
> 
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville-19990908.ftx
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville-19990903.ftx
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville-19990902.ftx
>   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?p=datsville-19990901.ftx
> 
> If you think this sounds intriguing, we could very easily set up a
> subcategory of /cad/ called /cad/datsville/ and you could create whatever
> pages you wanted there (you'd have editor permissions for that directory).
> 
> Lemme know!


Lets try it.

> --Todd
> 
> p.s.  The only snag is that there's no way yet to do imagemaps, but by the
> time there are 50 houses, it might get pretty tough to do even in raw HTML
> anyway.

My plan for the imagemap is to have a standard overhead view, so that the
locations of the current buildings stay the same each update.  Then I just
have to add mapping for new buildings (and vehicles, if I'm really insane.)

But I could just keep this part on my current account and link to it.

-John Van



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  Re: Datsville
 
(...) I don't see any benifit. (Thanks to WebWasher, I don't get those most annoying pop-up windows from sites like GeoCities). Of course, Datsville must be linked to from ldraw.org, but why move it? /Tore (27 years ago, 6-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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